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How lonely people use and perceive Facebook
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“Loneliness varies across the life span and personality traits (Mund et al. 2020;von Soest et al. 2020), and technology's effects are conditioned by psychological dispositions (Jin 2013;Phu & Gow 2019).”
From Not a Silver Bullet for Loneliness: How Attachment and Age Shape Intimacy with AI Companions (2026) · cites this paper as Jin 2013
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“While online interaction, including with AI companions, may provide short-term emotional relief (Cauberghe et al. 2020;De Freitas et al. 2025;Latikka et al. 2022;Potdevin et al. 2021;Sullivan et al. 2023), highly lonely individuals often derive limited benefit (Jin 2013;Phu & Gow 2019), and some may develop maladaptive reliance (Al-Obaydi & Pikhart 2025;Jacobs 2024;Turel & Serenko 2012).”
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- Jin, B.
- Venue
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-11
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 2463-2470
- ISSN
- 0747-5632
- Cited by
- 72
- References
- 22
- Language
- en
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